Rafael de Soto, one of the best pulp practitioners, once said, “If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, because I like you,’ that's fine art. If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, but it's a hundred bucks,’ that's commercial art.”

Generations of Music, Track 2: Taking a transformational journey with Hurray for the Riff Raff

From COVID  to The Queen’s Gambit: How a New York institution has weathered our strange days

Fabulously, it’s a film full of old, or older, people who have vibrant, busy, capable lives, even if that means the final stroke

“It’s definitely pop, and I love pop. But I also am trying to challenge myself in terms of what that label might mean for the music I make.”

“The seething raw power cut through with delicate emotion mapped my internal workings pretty accurately.”

“The thought occurs that in each of the Age of Television's three great contests over the Con­stitution, the rogues' gallery has never really changed. Those are proud and pa­triotic Republicans sitting over there.”